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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8247064" data-attributes="member: 29398">Nuh-uh.&nbsp; Not die means not die, period.&nbsp; Black and white.Otherwise you're into judgment-call territory as to whether a death is &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot;, which puts the DM in a really bad spot.I once ran a one-off gonzo game where the most efficient way to earn loads of xp was to die; and there was a little prize for whoever got the most xp that day.&nbsp; Never have I seen players so eager to chuck their PCs into every combat they could find!Thing is, I didn't tell the players how I was doing xp until I handed out the prize; and the player who thought she was going to come in last due to her PC dying twice and missing most of the adventure in fact won! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Because it's so barn-door-wide open for it.The last D&amp;D CRPG I touched, and that only briefly, was Pools of Radiance from the 2e gold-box series.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8247064, member: 29398"] Nuh-uh. Not die means not die, period. Black and white. Otherwise you're into judgment-call territory as to whether a death is "good" or "bad", which puts the DM in a really bad spot. I once ran a one-off gonzo game where the most efficient way to earn loads of xp was to die; and there was a little prize for whoever got the most xp that day. Never have I seen players so eager to chuck their PCs into every combat they could find! Thing is, I didn't tell the players how I was doing xp until I handed out the prize; and the player who thought she was going to come in last due to her PC dying twice and missing most of the adventure in fact won! :) Because it's so barn-door-wide open for it. The last D&D CRPG I touched, and that only briefly, was Pools of Radiance from the 2e gold-box series. [/QUOTE]

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